Patents Assigned to Xenon Corporation
  • Use of pulsed light to deactivate toxic and pathogenic bacteria
    Publication number: 20040028553
    Abstract: A system and method are used to deactivate bacteria on articles such as pieces of mail or keyboards. With mail, the pulses are sufficient to destroy a substantial amount of the bacterial without also removing inks or other indicia from the mail.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2002
    Publication date: February 12, 2004
    Applicant: Xenon Corporation
    Inventor: Louis R. Panico
  • Spiral-shaped lamp for UV curing of coatings and bonding for a digital versatile disk (DVD) or compact disk ( CD)
    Publication number: 20030010435
    Abstract: A spiral-shaped lamp (10) is used for disk manufacturing processes, such as curing of coating or bonding, to provide uniform intensity of UV energy to the circular disk without requiring relative motion between the disk and the lamp during the curing process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2002
    Publication date: January 16, 2003
    Applicant: Xenon Corporation
    Inventors: C. Richard Panico, Louis R. Panico
  • Dual lamp system
    Publication number: 20020186014
    Abstract: A pulse lamp system has two or more lamps for providing pulses with common electronics to perform processing such as curing coatings, curing adhesives, tilt management, and optical disk initialization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2002
    Publication date: December 12, 2002
    Applicant: Xenon Corporation
    Inventors: C. Richard Panico, Louis R. Panico
  • Formatting optical disks
    Publication number: 20020166043
    Abstract: An optical disk is initialized using a flash lamp with a short duration pulse and/or at close distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2002
    Publication date: November 7, 2002
    Applicant: Xenon Corporation
    Inventor: Richard C. Panico
  • Photomagnetic catalysis process
    Patent number: 4495040
    Abstract: The method of catalyzing a chemical reaction in a substance of a type in which a chemical reaction can be catalyzed by the combined effects of a magnetic field and electromagnetic radiation. Electromagnetic radiation and a pulsed magnetic field of sufficient (and greater than ambient) strength is applied to the substance to catalyze the chemical reaction, the magnetic field being other than that of the electromagnetic radiation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 1983
    Date of Patent: January 22, 1985
    Assignee: Xenon Corporation
    Inventor: C. Richard Panico
  • Apparatus for rapid curing of resinous materials and method
    Patent number: 4167669
    Abstract: Rapid curing of polymerizable materials is effected more efficiently by rapid pulsing of applied energy at a repetition rate of 3 to 120 pulses per second. Pulsed energy using fast high intensity xenon flash lamps is exemplary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 1978
    Date of Patent: September 11, 1979
    Assignee: Xenon Corporation
    Inventor: C. Richard Panico